Can we DELETE all the Generations of a GDG at once, WITHOUT
deleting the GDG itself ?

Answer Posted / deepak narasappa

During such scenario..always create dummy GDG version at
the end of job.. SO whenever your job runs, atleast one
dummy file will be present and also you can avoid abend..

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